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See A Satellite Tonight shows you from streetview which direction to look in based on your postcode and also does a snazzy little animation of them passing so you know what to look for.
Ah that's great.See A Satellite Tonight shows you from streetview which direction to look in based on your postcode and also does a snazzy little animation of them passing so you know what to look for.
More seriously, they are all several hundred km up (400-500 km and are viewable from slant ranges of 1000+ km).Ah that's great.
They appear to go right over the top of my house, but I assume that's what it looks like for most people right?
I use the Heavens Above Android app.Can any one suggest an easy to use Android satellite tracker. Star constellation are not very helpful for me, I can recognise Orion and that's about it. ☹
Is that tonight or tomorrow?The next SpaceX launch has been brought forward 24 hours. The Starlink 6 tranche are due to leap off pad SLC-39A at the Cape at 2037BST tomorrow evening, Wednesday 22 April.
The timing means you might be able to catch the rocket and upper stage with Starlink satellites only just deployed (they might be hard to resolve individually without decent binoculars and just appear as an extended blob in the sky) some 20 odd minutes post launch. There's also the possibility of upper stage venting (would form a nebulous cloud alongside).
The pass will be from W to E and almost directly overhead (seen from the southern UK) starting around 2056BST, at the zenith at 2059BST and setting by around 2101BST.
The skymap here for SE England but should good enough for locating from anywhere in the southern UK. The satellites and upper stage will rise below Venus (in Taurus).
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Is that tonight or tomorrow?
2037BST tomorrow evening, Wednesday 22 April.
That's for Starlink satellites already in orbit. They don't have orbital data for yet-to-be launched satellites. I'm providing a heads up on seeing a new set which will have only been launched 20 minutes earlier.So the launch is at 2037 and we will see them about 20 minutes later?
Accoording to this See A Satellite Tonight we will see them at 2137 BST Tomorrow
We counted 37!
For the current constellations aloft try Heavens Above. You'll need to enter your location.Does anyone know what time they are likely to be overhead tomorrow ?